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Aurora Partners With Toyota in Bid to Bring Autonomy to Masses
The first model that will be equipped with the Aurora Driver, the company’s hardware, software and sensor suite, is the Toyota Sienna minivan. (Aurora Innovation Inc.)
Aurora Innovation Inc., a Silicon Valley-based autonomous-driving startup with at least a $10 billion valuation, has agreed to a long-term strategic partnership with Toyota Motor Corp. and its supplier Denso Corp. that aims to mass produce autonomous vehicles and launch them on ride-hailing networks, including Uber’s, over the next few years.
February 9, 2021Elon Musk’s Finance Chief Quietly Tallies Profit Surge at Tesla
Musk (Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg News)
Tesla Inc. on Jan. 27 is widely expected to report its sixth consecutive quarterly profit — and potentially its first $1 billion quarter. That follows a remarkable year when Tesla’s stock split and skyrocketed, the company joined the S&P 500 Index and it sold almost half a million cars.
January 26, 2021Tesla Inches Near Annual Goal With Record Sales in Quarter
New Tesla vehicles sit on the dockside after being imported to the Port of Southampton in the United Kingdom. (Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg News)
Tesla Inc. delivered a record number of cars worldwide in the third quarter, smashing analysts’ estimates and maintaining its dominance in electric-vehicle sales — making a difficult year-end sales goal slightly more attainable.
October 2, 2020Tesla Beats Delivery Expectations, Sending Shares Surging
Tesla vehicles sit in a parking lot at a port. (Toru Hanai/Bloomberg News)
Tesla Inc. reported a sequential gain in quarterly deliveries that seemed improbable weeks ago, sending its stock surging toward Wall Street’s most bullish price target.
July 2, 2020Tesla China Plant Might Have Come to the Rescue Last Quarter
Elon Musk removes his jacket during the Tesla China-made Model 3 delivery ceremony in Shanghai in January. (Qilai Shen/Bloomberg News)
Tesla Inc. endured a roughly seven-week shutdown of its most important car plant in the world last quarter, but its brand-new backup factory may have saved the day.
July 1, 2020Tesla Pitches 5,000 ‘Middle-Skill’ Factory Jobs to Texas County
Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during the Cybertruck unveiling in California in November 2019. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)
Executives from Tesla Inc. will use an unassuming job-type description in their pitch to a Texas county on the merits of the carmaker’s Cybertruck plant project.
June 23, 2020Tesla Homes In on Austin, Texas, for Cybertruck Site
Tesla CEO Elon Musk introduces the Cybertruck in California in November 2019. (Ringo H.W. Chiu/Associated Press)
Tesla Inc. is zeroing in on an area in southeast Austin, Texas, for the electric-car maker’s second U.S. auto factory as Elon Musk prepares to choose a site for its production base of a new pickup truck.
June 18, 2020Police Visit Tesla Plant, Underscoring Confusion on Lockdown Loosening
Vehicles pass the Tesla assembly plant in Fremont, Calif., on May 11. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News)
Police visited Tesla Inc.’s sole U.S. car plant May 13 to assess whether the electric car maker was adhering to safety protocols agreed to with the county that Elon Musk publicly said he would defy earlier in the week.
May 14, 2020Tesla Scouts for Cybertruck Plant Location in Central US
Tesla CEO Elon Musk introduces the Cybertruck at Tesla's design studio in Hawthorne, Calif., in November. (Ringo H.W. Chiu/Associated Press)
Tesla Inc. will build its in-development Cybertruck at a new plant in the U.S., CEO Elon Musk tweeted, likely triggering a state-by-state competition similar to one he set off six years ago.
March 11, 2020Tesla Criticizes Acceleration Petition Filed to NHTSA
Tesla Inc. has pushed back against a petition filed with NHTSA alleging a defect that can cause unintended acceleration in its vehicles.
Tesla Inc. fired back against a petition filed with U.S. regulators, saying in a blog post Jan. 20 that it’s “completely false and was brought by a Tesla short seller.”
January 21, 2020